Pin-holder.



No. 656,663. 1 Patented Aug.` 20, |900. A. A. mcHAnnsuN. PIN HOLDER.

(Appli'carinn med Feb. 2a, 1900.)

(H0 Model.)

ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMASA A. RICHARDSON, OF OREGON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY C. SCHMIDT, OF SAME PLACE.

PINWHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,663, dated August 28, 1900. Application filed February 26, 1900. Serial No. 6,780. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concurra- Be it known that I, AMASA A. RICHARDSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oregon, in the county of Holt and State of Missouri, have invented and produced a new and useful Device for Holding and Extracting Pins, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-` Figure l is a' front view. Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. l.

This invention has relation to that class of pin-holders in which a row of pins is cut from the package and inserted in a suitable holder, with means for extracting one or more pins from the paper without disturbing the others.

Various modification may be made in the construction without departing from the spirit of the invention.

A represents the base, which may be made of any suitable material.

The holder B consists of flattened tubes larger at one end than at the other, the larger end being of a size sufficient to receive a row of' pins with an opening sufficient to expose them, as shown, the small end being opened on inner edge to ureceive the paper after the pins have been extracted. Each end of these holders B is gripped firmly to base A by means of an overlap, as shown in Fig. 2.

C is a narrow flattened spring bent at center till both ends nearly touch and fastened securely atthe bottom by means of a tenent on spring C and inserted in slot on base A, as shown in Fig. 2. The prong that stands vertical has a fork, as shown by spring C in Fig. 2, to receive the bottom pin in the row and to hold it in position, the other prong of Whichstands back suiicient to allow the point of the pin to pass by gravity, the lower pin being extracted by pressing the outer prong which abnts against the point of the pin, as clearly shownwby dotted lines in Fig. l.

D D represent a part of base A, curved back to a half-circle to hold B from wall a distance sufficient to admit the finger to pass under when getting a pin and also to act as a bottom stop to extra rows that are inserted behind the device. The side E in Fig. 2 is a part of base A bent back at right angles. The sides E and the convex of D D form a pocket, as shown in Fig. 3, when fastened to the wall at F and center of D D.

The operation of my invention will be apparent from the foregoing description.

It will be noted that the lowest pin supports the entire row and as soon as itis pushed out by the extractor C the paper will fall by its own weight and leave the next pin in position for extraction, the fork in the outer end of the extractor C servngto keep the paper from falling too far.

I claim as my inventiony A combined pin holder and extractor consisting of a base-piece on which a pin-holder is fastened, the said holder consisting of a fiattened tube of a somewhat larger diameter at one end than at the other, the large end being of a size sufficient to receive a row of pins on a paper and having an opening sufficient to expose the whole row of pins, the small end having an opening sufficient to receive the paper after the pins have been extracted and means located between the large and small parts of the holder C which control the discharge of a single pin from the paper through the opposite side of the tube, substantially as set forth.

AMASA A. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE F. SEEMAN, H. VANDENEER. 

